Strangers at Home

Strangers at Home
Author: Kimberly D. Schmidt
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2002-01-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780801867866

""A major contribution to our understanding of Anabaptist history and the ongoing construction of Anabaptist identity."" -- Mennonite Quarterly Review.

The Amish Seamstress

The Amish Seamstress
Author: Mindy Starns Clark
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0736941711

Bestselling authors Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould provide an unexpected surprise in The Amish Seamstress, Book 4 in the Women of Lancaster County series, which tells the stories of young Amish women as they explore their roots, connect with family, and discover true love. Izzy Mueller is an exceptional listener and gifted caregiver. She’s also a talented seamstress. As the young woman sits with her elderly patients, she quietly sews as they share their stories. She’s content with her life until circumstances reconnect her with someone she once loved. Zed Bayer, a Mennonite, is not what her family is hoping for in a spouse, and his creative interest in filmmaking is definitely at odds with her Amish upbringing. As Izzy is swept up again in Zed and renews her friendship with his sister, Ella, she begins to ask questions about her own life—her creative longings and historical interests, her relationships and desire for romance, and most importantly, her faith. What is the path God has for her? Can she learn from the past of both her family’s and Zed’s—or must she forge a completely different future of her own?

The Amish Nanny

The Amish Nanny
Author: Mindy Starns Clark
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2011-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0736941606

Bestselling author Mindy Starns Clark and coauthor Leslie Gould offer readers The Amish Nanny, Book 2 in the Women of Lancaster County series, which tells the stories of young Plain women as they explore their roots, connect with family, and discover true love. Amish-raised Ada Rupp knows it’s time to make a commitment to the faith and join the church, especially if she wants a future with the handsome Amish widower Will Gundy. But when she has the chance to travel to Switzerland as the caregiver of a young child, she leaps at the opportunity. Anxious to learn more about her forebears, Ada enlists the help of a young Mennonite scholar named Daniel, but even as she develops feelings for him, she cannot get Will from her mind—or her heart. At a crossroads, Ada must decide what she is willing to give up from the past in order to embrace her future.

The Lives of Amish Women

The Lives of Amish Women
Author: Karen M. Johnson-Weiner
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-09-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1421438704

Aimed at anyone who is interested in the Amish experience, The Lives of Amish Women will help readers understand better the costs and benefits of being an Amish woman in a modern world and will challenge the stereotypes, myths, and imaginative fictions about Amish women that have shaped how they are viewed by mainstream society.

Why I Left the Amish

Why I Left the Amish
Author: Saloma Miller Furlong
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1609172043

There are two ways to leave the Amish—one is through life and the other through death. When Saloma Miller Furlong’s father dies during her first semester at Smith College, she returns to the Amish community she had left twenty four years earlier to attend his funeral. Her journey home prompts a flood of memories. Now a mother with grown children of her own, Furlong recalls her painful childhood in a family defined by her father’s mental illness, her brother’s brutality, her mother’s frustration, and the austere traditions of the Amish—traditions Furlong struggled to accept for years before making the difficult decision to leave the community. In this personal and moving memoir, Furlong traces the genesis of her desire for freedom and education and chronicles her conflicted quest for independence. Eloquently told, Why I Left the Amish is a revealing portrait of life within—and without—this frequently misunderstood community.

Runaway Amish Girl

Runaway Amish Girl
Author: Emma Gingerich
Publisher: Progressive Rising Phoenix Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-03-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781940834078

Disagreeing with the beliefs of Amish traditions and upbringing, the pressure became too much for her to bear. Forced to make a personal decision, Emma found the courage to leave the only life she had ever known. She had no idea the emotional turmoil she'd inflict on her family and friends.

Amish Women and the Great Depression

Amish Women and the Great Depression
Author: Katherine Jellison
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2023-11-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1421447983

A detailed look at how Amish women sustained family farming during the Great Depression. At the end of the Great Depression, the US Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) designated the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the most economically and culturally stable agricultural community in the nation. In Amish Women and the Great Depression, Katherine Jellison and Steven D. Reschly examine the integral role that Amish women played in this Depression-era success story. Making unprecedented use of quantitative data as well as qualitative accounts by and about Amish women, Jellison and Reschly reveal how Amish women sustained family farming during this devastating time. Using information from the federal government's 1935–1936 Study of Consumer Purchases (SCP), they closely examine the quantitative data related to Old Order Amish families and their neighbors in Lancaster County. SCP investigators approached women in these families to learn about household spending habits, farm crops and income, farm and household equipment, family size, home production, recreational practices, and dietary habits. Jellison and Reschly analyze the production and consumption activities of Amish women and their families as well as comparative data about the practices of their neighbors. Amish Women and the Great Depression also incorporates a variety of qualitative sources to enliven the statistical analysis, including Old Order Amish women's diaries and memoirs; newspaper accounts by and about Amish women; government reports and related correspondence about the Lancaster County Amish; oral histories with elderly Old Order Amish people about their experiences in the 1930s; an oral history with Walter M. Kollmorgen, the author of the 1942 BAE study of Old Order Amish community stability; and photographs by New Deal photographers. This unique portrait of Depression-era farm life provides a historic look into the farming practices and daily lives of Amish women.

The Amish

The Amish
Author: Steven M. Nolt
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2016-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1421419564

Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork and collaborative research, The Amish: A Concise Introduction is a compact but richly detailed portrait of Amish life. In fewer than 150 pages, readers will come away with a clear understanding of the complexities of these simple people.

Amish Cooking

Amish Cooking
Author: Mark Eric Miller
Publisher: Gramercy
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Amish
ISBN: 9780517194584

Those returning to the concept of simple living will find pleasure in these 800 hearty recipes, lovingly handed down through the generations. Among the recipes are such favorites as Hot Ham and Cheese Buns and Shoo-Fly Pie. Special sections on canning vegetables, curing meat, using leftovers, drying fruits and vegetables are also included.